EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 30, Number 6 This issue's topics: Magnetic Filings, Thank God mar y sol pop festival (2 messages) Re: music files Pocket Pedal (7 messages) emusic in July 1991 "Computer" magazine (2 messages) Re: Boss SE-50 Multimedia Windows Mclaughlin/Gertu Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1991 03:29:16 GMT From: Cecilia M Tan Subject: Magnetic Filings, Thank God [Ed. note - "Magentic Filings II" is no longer available. I will distribute message pertaining to such items in "real-time" in the future. - JM] At last, I am holding in my hands the completed batch of Volume Two of Magnetic FIlings, complete with j-cards inserted and so forth. Egads--I can't wait to get them into the mail. Those of you who ordered just Volume Two will be receiving yours by next week (maybe longer for overseas). Those who ordered Volume One also will have to wait a bit longer as I'm having to dub each one of those separately on my home deck. I have about 20 VOlume Two not claimed yet. When they are sold out, I think I'll really have to declare them SOLD OUT for a while as September 1 I have to move to a new apartment and it will take me some time to get settled, etc... So if you want one, order it now. Now, regarding Magnetic FIlings VOlume Three. Volume One came out in the summer of 1989. Volume Two in the summer of 1991. Do you think we can aim for summer 1993? I think if I am going to do it, it willhave to wait until then. However, if someone else would like to pick up the tradition, (I think two volumes constitutes a tradition) I'm not a glory hog for this sort of thing. I'd be happy to let someone else take the credit (i.e. do the work). Or if no one else is inclined, I'll start taking submissions again in about 6 months... your Magnetic FIlings Compiler, -ctan -- "I live for the burn, and the sting of pleasure, I live for the sword... You're innocent and pure, and with no shame, the spirit is willing, and the flesh is craved, you tease and you taunt, with the pleasure of pain." --The Mission UK, "Wasteland" ctan@world.std.com Special Edition Goth.sig! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1991 08:55:03 EST From: Mary Purdy Subject: mar y sol pop festival Perhaps someone OUT THERE can help me...long ago, when being a hippie was more than just a fashion statement, I was turned on to an album (before CD's) called the Mar y Sol Pop Festival, a concert album taped at a festival in Puerto Rico around or about 1969 or '70. I have tried since then to acquire this rare piece of vinyl but even the record company no longer has copies and it is out of print. I would pay a good buck for it, or for any album (again, this stuff is from the OLD DAYS, when grass was green and...well, anyway)..by the band Nitzinger, who did a cut on the pop album. Great blues...."baby, you put your brain on a razor blade it'd look like a b-b going down a four lane highway....you ain't too smart...." Forgive me for refering to music other than classics..but, hey, what did the Airplane say (remember...before the Starship).."life is change..that's how it differs from the rocks..", so paaaarrrrrdddddoonnn me. :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 18:06:07 EDT From: Mike Allinger Subject: Re: mar y sol pop festival I have a copy of the album. If it can't be found through other sources I'd be willing to dub a copy for you. (Would that be unethical considering it's not available through regular outlets ? I don't want to hurt anybody.) I recall back in the early eighties a friend of mine used to get catalogs of out of print albums for collectors. I think he found these people advertised in the back of Rolling Stone. There are also (or at least there used to be) record stores in almost all of the major cities that specialized in collectors rarities. Perhaps someone out there in NY, LA, San Francisco, etc. can tell us their favorites. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Allinger * THIS SPACE FOR RENT M3A@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu * AA2Y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu * POST NO BILLS MIKEA@brutus.cit.cornell.edu * --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1991 12:07:37 BST From: Nick Rothwell Subject: Re: music files >Been watching the conversation "send me your music." What are "magnetic >filings" and what are the Usenet compilations? Collections of music? >What format? You do I get access to them? Both are audio cassettes of music donated to person who volunteered to compile the tapes. The USEnet tape is all sorts of music, the Mag Filings ones are mostly electronic (since they're related to the EMUSIC-L mailing list). Cecilia Tan (ctan@std.world.com I think) is responsible for the two Mag Filings tapes. For the USEnet tapes, you'll have to post to rec.music.makers or something - I have the guy's snailmail address but not a workable email address. Nick. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1991 11:51:52 LCL From: Norwich.School@DARTMOUTH.EDU Subject: Pocket Pedal Would love some guidance/info on the Anateck (sp) pocket pedal. Vaguely heard references to it, but need info on price, what else you need with it, personal experience/tips, and where I can get ordering info. I want to use it live with my Strat and a Boss SE-50 effects device to control delay times, etc. Thanks in advance for your help. Cam Cross ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 08:39:00 EDT From: wbf@CBEMA.ATT.COM Subject: Pocket Pedal > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1991 11:51:52 LCL > From: Norwich.School%DARTMOUTH.EDU@pucc.Princeton.EDU > > Would love some guidance/info on the Anateck (sp) pocket pedal. > Vaguely heard references to it, but need info on price, what else you need > with it, personal experience/tips, and where I can get ordering info. > I want to use it live with my Strat and a Boss SE-50 effects device to control > delay times, etc. > Thanks in advance for your help. > > Cam Cross Hi Cam, The Pocket devices seem to be all the rage. A friend of mine has the Merge, Filter, and Pedal and finds them quite useful. The Pedal should cost about $99.00 and it lets to use a foot switch for sustain (controller #64?) and foot pedals for the continuous controllers like volume (controller #7). Any music store worth its salt should carry them. You need a MIDI cable to run from it to the device it controls. With the Filter, you'll need a second MIDI cable to run from the controller to the Filter's MIDI in. They get power from the MIDI cable so they don't need batteries. (Environmentally sound, no pun intended.) Bill Fox ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 11:25:18 EDT From: Jamer Subject: Re: Pocket Pedal Yeah, Pocket Pedal, wOOOOah! I got one a little while ago to use with my quadraverb+. I bought mine at Far Out Music in Louisville for $89, but you should be able to get one from someplace like Sam Ash, which has a phone number in any music mag you can find. You'll also need a controller pedal and/or an on/off switch. I bought an Ensoniq CPV-5 (?) pedal, which is their basic pedal for their keyboards, and it cost about $25. It doesn't need a seperate power source, and connects to the pocket pedal via a built in patch cord-thing. It's made of plastic, but seems pretty durable thus far. Supposedly, any pedal (volume, wah, etc.) that can vary resistance, can be used in tandem with the pocket pedal, because it sets itself within the parameters of the pedal. But, I didn't feel adventurous and therefore bought what the guy at the store used. The pocket pedal also has an input for an on/off switch, which would allow you, if you have the machine capability, to turn effects on/off, drum machines, or any other on/off midi controllable events. I don't use this, at least not yet. Later, Jamer. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 15:09:41 GMT From: Timothy Kaufman Subject: Re: Pocket Pedal >Would love some guidance/info on the Anateck (sp) pocket pedal. ... >I want to use it live with my Strat and a Boss SE-50 effects device to control >delay times, etc. > >Thanks in advance for your help. > >Cam Cross One thing that comes to mind here is the Pocket Pedal doesn't use batteries or an adaptor--it steals power from the MIDI line. That means you have to plug something into the Pocket's MIDI In. I suppose you could plug some dummy device into it, if you happen to have some piece of MIDI gear lying around. Tim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1991 07:54:00 EDT From: RAY BROHINSKY Subject: Re: Pocket Pedal >Doesn't have its own power...plug something into its MIDI in... Does this mean that the pocket pedal is a midi merge with the ability to generate and merge its own controller inputs? I though someone said that it had to have a pocket Merge to be able to add control to another midi stream. I have looked at the pocket pedal, but don't remember it having a midi in. (Could be wrong!) If this thing does merge, I'll get one: the WX-7 has only a midi-out. It has no dedicated mod wheel (although the `reed' could be assigned that way, if you set it to aftertouch and used a mapper), and no sustain pedal,etc. I'd like to be able to add those. I had considered using a pocket Merge with my DOD MIDI pedal, but that would mean that I'd be sending patch-change info to my synth when I change my QV+ (which is all I use the midi controller pedal for now.) raybro ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1991 11:07:59 EDT From: Jamer Subject: Re: Pocket Pedal The pocket pedal doesn't do an actual midi merge; but it does a kind of analog/midi merge. I have an ADA midi controller (has it's own power source) which I plug into the midi in of the pocket pedal; then I plug the CV pedal into a 1/4" jack. These two signals are "merged" together, and sent via the one midi out port on pocket pedal. So, a short answer would be, No, it doesn't do an actual midi merge. Later, Jamer. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1991 13:34:00 EDT From: RAY BROHINSKY Subject: Re: Pocket Pedal >No, it doesn't do an actual midi merge I hope this is just an inadvertant misstatement. If the ADA pedal's output is midi, and the pocket pedal produces a midi stream of control events, and they all get into the target device (attached to the midi out) then it does a real-live midi merge. I think you are limiting the term midi merge to a device that merges the midi streams of two sources which are seperate from the merger device. That really beggers the question: can I merge control midi events produced by the pocket pedal with the midi events coming out of my WX-7 wind controller without having to have a seperate (pocket) merge device if I use pocket pedal? The answer appears to be no. Does anyone know how intellegent the merger is? For instance, if I'm sending note events and pitch bend events from my WX-7, and using the pocket pedal to add sustain and mod-wheel events, will the output from the pocket merge be coherent, or could it generate controller outputs at the same time I'm generating control or note events? In other words, does it act as a current-buffered Y-cable, or does it actually (carefully) merge the two data streams: my WX-7 stream and its own internally-generated stream? raybro ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1991 15:15:21 EDT From: Brian Adamson Subject: emusic in July 1991 "Computer" magazine To anyone interested: The July 1991 issue of "COMPUTER" magazine is dedicated to computer- generated music and contains several interesting articles on various research efforts in this area. I found the description of Wayne Lytle's integrated graphics & music animation interesting. One neat scene: A spout, ringed by a circular array of chimes (looks like a flower) emerges from a trapdoor in the stage. Ball bearings erupt from the spout and following pre-calculated trajectories land on the chimes precisely in time with corresponding computer-generated chime music. Pictures of the graphics are pretty neat, evidently ray-traced & rendered images. Anyway, the issue is worth checking out (particularly for folks like me who aren't exposed to academic research in emusic on a daily basis) I hadn't seen a post mentioning this, so here it is... Brian Adamson ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1991 15:22:48 EDT From: Brian Adamson Subject: COMPUTER magazine articles... BTW, COMPUTER magazine is published by the IEEE Computer Society if you go looking for it (probably in any university engineering library). Other articles included: "Programming Language for Expressive Comp. Music" "Recombinant Music: Using the Computer to Explore Style" "Toward an Expert System for Expressive Musical Performance" "Fugue: A Functional Language for Sound Synthesis: (this article is reminiscent of the Sound Description Language discussions which occurred in the past on this list) Others, too. This rather distressed-looking post is a postscript to my previous posting on the July 1991 issue of "COMPUTER" Brian Adamson adamson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (new e-mail address, css is dead, long live css) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1991 18:39:28 EDT From: Tapio Subject: Re: Boss SE-50 Hi! I am also the happy owner of a recently acquired Boss SE-50 multieffect device. I have used it so far exclusively with my guitar, and am very happy with it's features. I have basically selected five of it's preset sounds (including Rhythm Gtr, Lead 1, Jazz and Tube Stack) which I have modified slightly. I find many of the presets very useful and good-sounding as such. It's also very easy to scan through the menu and change them to suit your needs. I'm especially impressed with the sound of the distortion, as well as the speaker emulator. The effect has very, very good sounds for a quitar. Warmly recommended! -Tapio ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1991 21:46:10 GMT From: Luis Navarro Subject: Multimedia Windows I've seen a couple articles on Multimedia Windows over the past month...... but does anybody know when it's going to be released? --Luis ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1991 10:19:20 LCL From: Norwich.School@DARTMOUTH.EDU Subject: Mclaughlin/Gertu My cousin sent me this great tape: John McLaughlin Trio...Live at Royal Festival Hall. Recorded in November '89. Great tape. Kai Eckhardt on bass, and Trilok Gurtu on percussion. I gather he's Indian, and plays traps sitting down, bass drum with his sticks. A friend says he was in Shakti with Mclaughlin, and is now the drummer with Oregon, after the late Colin Wolcott. Is this true? For my money, Mclaughlin's the best guitarist today. Speed if he needs it, great harmonic sense, great composerm, improviser, etc. On the album, he plays acoustic, and something called the Photon guitar synthesizer...great sounds, but very natural sounding, if you know what I mean. Another great Mclaughlin acoustic album, of course is My Goal's Beyond when he was in his Sri Chinmoy phase, and for electric, try Inner Mounting Flame and Birds of Fire. I also like Johnny Mclaughlin, of about 10 years ago. Let me know what you think. Cam Cross ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************